apache & php - paths like: index.php/Main_Page???

[CTho9305]

How do paths like http://example.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page work? How does it know index.php is a script and not a directory? Where is this enabled/disabled?

 

[mugs]

Google mod_rewrite

 

[n0cmonkey]

The httpd.conf tells apache to run index.php through the php module.

 

[CTho9305]

Google mod_rewrite

mod_rewrite isn't enabled, and it works.

The httpd.conf tells apache to run index.php through the php module.

can you be more specific? someone has a box where index.php/Main_Page doesn't work and I'm trying to figure out which of the billion config differences is causing the problem. is it a php.ini setting? something in httpd.conf? Both the owner of the box and I failed to find an answer through google (google isn't so great for looking for "?" and "/").

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Google mod_rewrite

mod_rewrite isn't enabled, and it works.

The httpd.conf tells apache to run index.php through the php module.

can you be more specific? someone has a box where index.php/Main_Page doesn't work and I'm trying to figure out which of the billion config differences is causing the problem. is it a php.ini setting? something in httpd.conf? Both the owner of the box and I failed to find an answer through google (google isn't so great for looking for "?" and "/").

If I'm right, there should only be a couple mentions of "php" in the httpd.conf. One of them will be loading the module, the other will be "registering" the extension.

 

[CTho9305]

'aha, it's a mod_php config option in apache2'
'Note for Apache 2 users: This may give a "file not found error". This is because Apache 2 processes PHP in a different way. Quick answer to this is to put "Accept Path Info on" in the apache configuration. See also the Apache 2 manual.'
'bingo'

The owner of the machine figured it out.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
'aha, it's a mod_php config option in apache2'
'Note for Apache 2 users: This may give a "file not found error". This is because Apache 2 processes PHP in a different way. Quick answer to this is to put "Accept Path Info on" in the apache configuration. See also the Apache 2 manual.'
'bingo'

The owner of the machine figured it out.

Apache 2? Ew.